I feel for all those who have renewed their season ticket with the hope of a free one next year. With it likely hood that we are to sell magic and another one, our chances of going up reduce. Surely if the club are serious about promotion then we must keep all the good players we have left. So I say keep them til Christmas and if its looking good then keep them for the rest of the season, if not then sell in January. That way the club are showing the fans they are trying to go up.
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with the recent annoucement by Pardew (long overdue) that we are now a selling club, the best we have to hope for not just this season but for the foreseeable future is to stay in this division & not to head south like Leicester or Luton.
maybe hope for a small cup run - ie 5th round and hopefully draw a big team for a share of the gate reciepts.
just getting my head round the fact that we are no longer one of the "big boys" and will have to revert to the seige mentality we had in the eighties and early nineties. Respected by others not for the football we played or what division we are in, but more for the face we still have a team to watch every week.
How many people people renewed on the basis of the free st? I didn't, WSS does not appear to have.
Oh behave. What club isn't a bloody selling club.
Anyone deluded enoguh to think we would hold on to Bougherra if a PL club comes in AND pays the money we want then you are daft.
spot on, through thick and thin, for bad or worse, I'll be there.
Golfie on a wind up, again .......?
I have it on good authority that he's a closet born again optimist........ ;o)
I would quite happily pay for my season ticket next year, a freebie is the last thing I would consider in renewing my ticket. It's all about watching my team!
In fact, if we did gain promotion this year and it helped the club survive in the prem., then perhaps we, as genuine supporters should say to the club, thanks, but no thanks, here's our money, spend it wisely!
Of course we are going to have to sell our best players if a "bigger" club comes sniffing......i'm not daft although most on here may think so. The big problem at the moment is that since May we have effectivly swopped a centre half, let a few fringe players go and brought in a striker (top priority ??) from non-league. Now Pards is saying that apart from more players likely to go (& indicated that it could be more than just Faye & Boogie) the replacements are likely to be inferior, ie not championship quality.
That it th most worrying point about it all.
I've always thought that. Perhaps if 10,000 fans said thanks but a freebie is too generous here's £250 but it must go into the transfer kitty that would rekindle our affinity to the Club. Perhaps we could even have input into how our 2.5m is spent. An on-line vote with five player choices or a X-Factor type competition where we vote one out each week. That last bit is flippant BUT the first bit is deadly serious.
Noble sentiments, but the reality is that even the entire ST income in the Premier League is equal to no more than one bad signing by the manager.
Ooh, I understand what you are saying, but I don't consider myself cash rich. If we didn't go up I would still be paying for my season ticket anyway next year. There would probably be at least 5,000 fans doing the same as me. Even if everyone said here's £250, that's £1.25m, a very handy cash sum for the club I would say!
I take it that you don't have a wife or kids, cos I can imagine what my other half's reaction would be if I was suggest something like that to her!!
Should we go up this season I will happily sell my house and car and give my life savings to the club.
As you can see, I am very optimistic for the season :)
Bring it on - whoever is in the team we're going to be better than last year and that's all I ask for!
more importantly mate you are bang on.
Confusing selection - sounds like a Pardew team talk LOL
better than last year? prepare for disappointment dude..
1. The players at the club havent changed that much so they have had longer to bond and gel as a team
2. We have a new unkown starlet in our ranks who is ready to burst on the scene as an unkown quantity in an area of the pitch in which we have been desperate.
3. My expectations are lower and so should everyone elses we are not this Big team that should whoop everyone so get over it and have and breath a bit of confience to the players.
4. Our main competion in this league has got harder however they are also buying a lot of new players and like us last year unless they get extreemly lucky they will take time to gel and bed in.
5. i believe that players like Thomas have changed their attitude, we have not got the biggest squad so everyone knows they have a chance like Racon, Shelvey, Waggs, dicko, Fleetwood and therfore if they are sportsmen they will be driven enough to oust players currently in their position.
6. Toddy may just see this as a make or break season and find the form he showed at pompey to get one last shot of the big league
7. I dont think we should be concerend about loosing Bougy i do think he was a good prem player but that doesnt always make you able to play in the chumpionship i would like to keep him of course but if he goes he goes.
8, and most importantly we are not being lied to or decieved as to what way the club are trying to go down, the are being honset about our financies, they are putting the trust and focus on yoof and that can only be comended.
We may not go up folks but we are a long way off of relegation and doom and gloom
Thomas has never been an agressive player so i wouldnt have thought of any more of him
we just have to wait and see is all i am saying and if the only fault found so far in the above is JT sulking then we are still in a better place than last year
1. The players at the club havent changed that much so they have had longer to bond and gel as a team
2. We have a new unkown starlet in our ranks who is ready to burst on the scene as an unkown quantity in an area of the pitch in which we have been desperate.
3. My expectations are lower and so should everyone elses we are not this Big team that should whoop everyone so get over it and have and breath a bit of confience to the players.
4. Our main competion in this league has got harder however they are also buying a lot of new players and like us last year unless they get extreemly lucky they will take time to gel and bed in.
5. i believe that players like Thomas have changed their attitude, we have not got the biggest squad so everyone knows they have a chance like Racon, Shelvey, Waggs, dicko, Fleetwood and therfore if they are sportsmen they will be driven enough to oust players currently in their position.
6. Toddy may just see this as a make or break season and find the form he showed at pompey to get one last shot of the big league
7. I dont think we should be concerend about loosing Bougy i do think he was a good prem player but that doesnt always make you able to play in the chumpionship i would like to keep him of course but if he goes he goes.
8, and most importantly we are not being lied to or decieved as to what way the club are trying to go down, the are being honset about our financies, they are putting the trust and focus on yoof and that can only be comended.
We may not go up folks but we are a long way off of relegation and doom and gloom[/quote]
So aside from the fact that we are missing our best supply and striker from last year??